Abstract
Rabindranath Tagore and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, contemporaries in Bengali literature, were not only dominant writers of their time, each excelling in their own ways, but also pioneers in education par excellence. Although neither had any formal learning, both experimented with education by setting up their own academic institutions. Tagore initiated three institutions in Santiniketan, West Bengal—Brahmacharya Asrama (1901), Visva-Bharati University (1921) and Sriniketan Institute of Rural Reconstruction (1922)—each with specific objectives, while Rokeya started a school for Muslim girls, first in Bhagalpur, Bihar, in 1909 and then in Calcutta in 1911. This chapter examines the contributions of these two Bengal Renaissance writers to the field of education. It compares their pedagogical ideas and activities to show how their initiatives impacted the educational scene in British Bengal.
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